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Title: The miners pioneer ten commandments of 1849
Creator: Kurz & Allison (active ca. 1906), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: c1887
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Text of ten commandments surrounded by images depicting life of miners and pioneers including: claim jumping, gambling, chores, Indians, wagon trains, mining camps, tavern scenes; animals (elephant, donkeys, bears, horses, etc.), women and family life.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Copyrighted 1877 by W.P. Bennett, Gold Hill, Nevada; (LR): Kurz & Allison's art studio, Chicago, U[nited] S[tates of] A[merica].
Type: image
Format: Print on canvas mounted on board: lithograph, color 56.6 x 71.6 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1v19p0tf
BANC PIC 1963.002:0817--D
Subject: Animals
Camping
Frontier & pioneer life
Gold rushes
Indians of North America
Manners & customs
Miners
Mining
Settlers
Vehicles
Westward movement
Women

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